Does ChatGPT cause a large number of employees to be laid off?

ChatGPT is a product of OpenAI company, launched to the public on November 30, 2022. The tool attracts a lot of attention and is called “super AI” by the technology world because of its ability to answer questions, write essays, edit scripts, … with fast speed and high accuracy.

Assessing the strengths of the ChatGPT tool with today’s industries, Do Ngoc Tu, leader of the programmer group of FPT Software, shared: “The strength of ChatGPT is the quality of answering questions on many questions. It uses deep learning technology and language modeling to find the right model Some advantages are easy to use interface, easy to understand answers, ability to provide recommendations with individuals”.

Besides, this tool can also provide information in a variety of different fields: science, history, geography, sports, etc. more diverse.

Therefore, since its launch, the ChatGPT tool in particular and AI technology in general has attracted the attention of many people. Mr. Son Nguyen, Vice President of ABN Asia Technology Company said: “The growth rate of ChatGPT is very large, after only a few days, it has up to 10 million users per day. This shows the popularity and popularity of ChatGPT. In fact, AI has been developed for a long time and the predecessor of ChatGPT is GPT, but changing the interface is chat, new generation employees will prefer chatting over other interfaces.”

Also because of the intelligence of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence technology, many people think that it will bring a threat to many industries, even there are concerns about a large number of personnel will be fired.

However, in an interview on CBS news , Professor Erik Brynjolfsson of Stanford University emphasized that some jobs can be affected by AI in general and GPT in particular, but it is difficult to replace : The majority of jobs in the US economy involve knowledge and information and who will be most directly affected by this?

I would put jobs like lawyers at the top of the list and also copywriters and screenwriters. But I want to use the word: work is affected, not replaced. Rather, AI will not replace lawyers but will be lawyers who work with AI, replacing people who do not work with AI.”

Besides, assigning more jobs to chatbots is not necessarily depriving others of job opportunities, but simply a way of operating the organization more effectively as shared by Aljoscha Burchardt, a research expert. Research at the German AI research center: “For example, doctors in hospitals, they lose 40-60% of their time on paperwork and books. If they can delegate this task to AI chatbot, they will have more time to spend with patients.”

Despite great progress, ChatGPT still has many limitations such as lack of expertise. The tool is trained on a lot of data, but still doesn’t understand some specific expertise or new words. In addition, ChatGPT may have difficulty processing languages ​​with special meanings such as metaphors and metonymy.

“How can we be sure this tool doesn’t give false information, or harmful advice? What I fear most is that one day it will give out information that no one can verify the source. original, citing untrue knowledge”.

According to experts, AI in general or ChatGPT in particular can help automate some tasks, helping to increase the performance of work. However, tasks that require some high skills such as thinking skills, communication, emotions… AI can’t do better than humans yet.

With the development of AI, we need to continuously learn and practice to improve our skills. Besides, it is necessary to learn how to effectively use AI to support our work, helping us to shorten the time and complete the work more efficiently.